October 2008

Information Night - Wednesday October 29

Presented by Robyn Stephen and Sharon Vaughan from 7 to 9pm at the Seasons Botanic Gardens, 348 St Kilda Road, Melbourne. Click on the flyer to open...

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April 2008

Cellfield Gold Coast Conference Success

Parents seeking hope and relief for their long suffering loved ones, have lots of choice but not much to go on. All intervention providers claim to have high success in ending the failure, shame and humiliation that some children endure whenever they try to read. Yet when intervention providers are asked for proof that children are able to read better, almost none produce it.

This was the opinion of a prominent researcher who presented the key note address at the Cellfield International Conference on the Gold Coast recently.

Experienced practitioners of literacy support from Australia, New Zealand and South Africa participated in the conference. All were Cellfield Licensees. Several had dyslexic daughters and sons whose reading was going nowhere, despite receiving the best conventional reading support. After Cellfield, practitioners were surprised by gains of size they had never seen before. Their children continued to improve at an accelerated rate, blossoming into confident readers by choice.

Other presenters showed data from children who had undergone several prominent interventions with little success until Cellfield, with gains consistent with Cellfield's peer reviewed published study of 262 subjects.

At the conference conclusion, the key note speaker commended Cellfield for making such data freely available, saying that Cellfield was one of the very few who did so.

August 2007

USA Patent granted for Cellfield

It was a seven year wait for biggest patent to be granted for the Cellfield Intervention. Dimitri Caplygin, Cellfield CEO and Inventor, was relieved to receive the USA patent for reading disabilities and other neurophysiological deficits. (Cellfield patents for Australia, UK, France, Germany and Singapore have already been granted a few years earlier).

Dimitri and Patent

Dimitri conceived the unique multi-causal design at a time when intervention designs based on single causes were most prevalent, and when brain imaging technology and research was still developing.

Subsequent research based on more advanced brain imaging technologies could well have diminished the value of these patents if they showed the science behind Cellfield's approach to be flawed.

Recent research consistently indicates differences in brain activity between normal readers and those with dyslexia. A comprehensive text published this year, 'Learning Disabilities' by well known researchers Fletcher, Lyon, Fuchs & Barnes 2007, points out that "the functional connections between brain areas account for the differences in brain activation, as opposed to specific or general dysfunction of any single brain area". This quotation is consistent with Cellfield's original position of targeting problem areas simultaneously in order to activate the cross-connections between problem areas.

The abstract from the USA patent shows one of Dimitri's original hand sketches.

June 2007

CELLFIELD FOR A MATE?

Is there any better recommendation for Cellfield than from one mate to another? We don’t think so.

Ed Stephen, best mate of Morgan, has a mum who is Victorian Master Licensee for a cool looking computer program called Cellfield for "somebody who can’t read properly". Ed was really smart and could read, if he wanted to, but that wasn’t very often. When he had to read, which was at school, he really didn’t get it or remember what he read. When the teacher told him things to do, he forgot what they were. "It wasn’t because I didn’t want to remember" grumbled Ed. He just couldn’t.

After mum put him through Cellfield, it was like, he could really get it. Ed started to enjoy reading and remembered what the teacher said.

Ed’s mate Morgan heard it all straight from Ed. Morgan was in the same boat.

Morgan’s parents knew there had to be something special about Cellfield. "What would you like for Christmas?" They asked Morgan. "All I want is to go to Cellfield" he told his wide eyed parents.

"I want it first!"

Well, Morgan came to Cellfield and went. As you can see from the picture, Ed and Morgan are now having a bit of a row about who reads the book next.

June 2007

Tyquin comes to the Gold Coast

The Tyquin group are expanding, now delivering Cellfield for the Gold Coast and Northern NSW, in the original Cellfield clinic at Southport, which is also the Headquarters of Cellfield.

One of the first students to complete the Cellfield program delivered by Tyquin is Lee Fletcher, who just missed out scoring 1000 points for his last Cellfield treatment session which is an exceptional result.

Lee and Mum

Lee is about to start his 10 week Cellfield follow-on phase which will enhance his reading fluency with better comprehension.

May 2007

CELLFIELD CONFERENCE REVEALS NEW DATA

Australian Cellfield licensees attend conference in Sydney to present successes in treating children with diverse symptoms of reading disorders. Deficits in phonological skills continue to show the greatest and most consistent improvements with the Cellfield Intervention.

Devon Barns describes her Cellfield outcomes

Prominent St Ives Speech Pathologist, Lynda Becker, presented data from some children who had undertaken several very well know programs but without measurable improvement. After Cellfield, all of these children showed gains of at least a year in just two weeks, not only in phonological awareness, word identification and passage comprehension, but also in all areas of oral reading proficiency. Most of these children showed gains in spelling, which usually occur some time after the intervention.

Louise Tyquin, speech pathologist and Cellfield Master Licensee for Queensland, presented longitudinal data of her own daughter Sophie, who in 2006 broke free from an extended period of stagnant reading progress with the help of Cellfield. A year later, assessments showed that Sophie had continued to improve strongly after the Cellfield Intervention. Sophie undertook a second Cellfield Intervention at a higher level. This lifted her beyond age appropriate in comprehension, accuracy and phonological processing. Louise Tyquin and her husband Philip are thrilled with Sophie's outcomes and are passionately supportive of Cellfield.

Devon Barnes, a particularly experienced Cellfield Licensee of a major Speech Pathology practice in Lindfield Sydney, provided insights into the most severe cases of dyslexia and how best to deal with them.

Robyn Stephen, Cellfield Master Licensee of Victoria, presented impressive data, including those for her son Ed, who like Sophie, had broken free from years of stagnant reading progress. Apart from outstanding reading gains, Ed had improved markedly in his ability to retain lengthy verbal directives.

Cellfield Inventor Dimitri Caplygin, said the "the data vindicates the multi-causal approach of Cellfield" and that he "was sure that the volume of positive data, even for those assessed with severe language and auditory processing disorders, must in the end gain the attention of educators at the Federal level".

May 2007

Dyslexia Success - Cellfield NZ one year later

Licensees from NZ and Australia exchanged success stories at the Inaugural Conference in Wellington NZ this year.

Reading skill gains for past year were impressive and consistent with the peer reviewed Cellfield Intervention study*. More interesting were reports of the unusual, such as from Jenni Wiles of Read Auckland. She spoke of a child who had completed the Cellfield Intervention three times in one year. The first and second interventions motivated the parents to book for the third, despite a caution from Jenni that outcomes for the third may not be as large as before. Jenni need not have worried. The child made her biggest gain of two years in comprehension, again in just two weeks.

Jenni had another child who was assessed to have the Streff syndrome, which took away her ability to see well enough to perform any reading assessment. The child could not see the letters due to psycho-neurological reasons. Jenni laboriously coaxed the child from session to session.

Cellfield Training in NZ

After two weeks, all symptoms of Steff had disappeared and the child could read and decode albeit slowly. Although the before- and- after assessment comparisons could not be made, the Dyslexia Screening Test did show that the child had moved from an index of 1.2 (1 and above considered to be 'dyslexia') to an index of 0.5 which is considered not to be dyslexia. The parents were elated. The child's self esteem and confidence soared.

Jill Patterson, Cellfield Licensee in Christchurch talked of a reading impaired child who coincidently had poor eating habits which no coercion moved him to change. After the Cellfield Intervention, the child switched his diet away from junk food toward vegetables and even sushi without a word! Dimitri Caplygin, Cellfield CEO and Inventor, was amused by this outcome, re-assuring all that Cellfield would not be adding diet change as an expected outcome.

Cellfield NZ Master Licensee and conference organizer, David Wardell, expressed the unanimous feeling a powerful tool such as Cellfield has proven to be, needed to be made widely available to all children with persistent reading shortfalls.